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Two Flavian Burials from Grange Road, Winchester

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One evening towards the end of August 1964, Mr. G. H. Bell walked across to the excavations north of Winchester Cathedral and told the writer that some pots had been found during the digging of a new sewer trench opposite his house in Grange Road, Winchester. The site of the discovery was visited the same evening and the pots, which later proved to have come from Grave I, at once showed that the find was of Roman date. Immediate inspection revealed one pit, later numbered Grave II, in the east side of the sewer trench. The following day a talk with Mr. Butcher of King's Worthy, who had been driving the mechanical digger excavating the trench, revealed the full story of the discovery.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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page 225 note 1 The excavation was carried out by the writer, Mr. D. F. Mackreth, Mr. Triffit, and Miss Phillipa Fox-Robinson, who recorded and packed the finds. Mr. W. W. Powell took the photographs and the owners of the houses nearby provided electric light and hot drinks throughout the night. The plan and sections of the graves were drawn by Mr. D. F. Mackreth; the drawings of the objects are mostly the work of Mr. D. S. Neal, with some by Miss Margaret White, who also treated the finds in the laboratory. The late Mr. Cedric Yardley and Miss Sarah Jennings helped in work on the finds and Dr. Peter Watts of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Dr. Dawson of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital took X-radiographs of the metal objects. To all these and others who have helped, I offer my grateful thanks.

page 226 note 1 Mr. F. Cottrill provided this information from the records of the Winchester City Museums.

page 238 note 1 I noted this type as a western phenomenon when cataloguing the glass from Karanis in Egypt (Harden, D. B., Roman Glass from Karanis (Ann Arbor, 1936), p. 233Google Scholar) indicating then (and the same is true today) that it had, to my knowledge, no eastern counterparts. Fragments of jugs with tall handles and constrictions at their base, but unlike this western group in other respects, occurred in third- and fourth-century levels at Karanis (ibid., p. 240, nos. 710–11).

page 238 note 2 I use ‘pre-moulded’ to indicate the application of corrugations and other patterns to a vase by blowing the gob into a ribbed or otherwise-patterned cylindrical mould, after release from which the body of the vessel with its decoration is blown and fashioned into its final shape. By this process the decoration expands laterally on bulbous bodies and is often twisted into S-curves (for example) as well by twirling the vessel on the blowpipe.

page 238 note 3 The first, op. cit., p. 105, fig. 87, no. 6, is a plain piece from Muralto, Liverpool Unten, Grave 44; the second, ibid., p. 148, fig. 128, no. 3, and pl. 12, no. 4, has vertical ribs on the body and came from Minusio, Cadra, Grave 14.

page 239 note 1 In the Claudio-Neronian levels (IV-VI) I could list only three fragments of Form 55 (D. B. Harden apud, Camulodunum, p. 305, nos. 94–96). No. was of Form 55 b; no. 95 was either 55 a or 55 b; the third was a neck and handle fragment only.

page 239 note 2 I omit ibid., no. 370 for reasons explained in 94 note 2, p. 240, below,

page 240 note 1 For this dating see Berger, L., Römische aus Vindonissa (1960), table opp. p. 92Google Scholar, which gives the most recent, considered dates for the various graves at Locarno.

page 240 note 2 I state this firmly, despite the apparent contrary evidence of the ‘colourless’ jug from pit 141 at Richborough illustrated in Richborough IV, p. 158, no. 370, pl. lxviii. Miss Charlesworth tells me that the piece is not colourless, but greenish. Besides, the shape is uncertain, since the drawing is restored from fragments and the handle, as restored, is quite unconvincing. But whatever shape the handle was, it is difficult to see how the extant bits of handle-attach-merits at the lip and on the shoulder could belong to one of the handles of the type which concerns us here, I have therefore (see n. 2, p. 239) omitted this piece from my reckoning.

page 240 note 3 Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology, Cambridge: Fox, C., The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region (1923), pl. 26, fig.1Google Scholar; Toynbee, J. M. C., Art in Roman Britain (2nd ed., 1963), p. 175Google Scholar, no. 114, pl. 130.

page 240 note 4 Hungarian National Museum, Budapest: Radnóti, A., Die römischen Bronzegefässe von Pannonien (1938), pp. 148–9Google Scholar, pls. 13, no. 73; 49, nos. 2, 3.

page 241 note 1 I am greatly indebted to Mr. Henry Hodges, of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, for elucidating for me the process of the jug’s manufacture.

page 241 note 2 See n. 3, p. 240, above, and Toynbee, J. M. C., Art in Britain under the Romans (1964), pl. 3, fig. CGoogle Scholar.

page 241 note 3 Lost: V.C.H. Essex, iii (1963), pl. 6Google Scholarb.

page 241 note 4 National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh: Curie, J., A Roman Frontier Post and its People: the Fort of Newstead (1911), p. 276Google Scholar, fig. 38 c, pl. 56.

page 241 note 5 Papers of the British School at Rome, xxvii (1959), 109–10Google Scholar.

page 245 note 1 Oakley, Kenneth, ‘Folklore of Fossils’, Antiquity, xxxix (1965), 916CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 117–25. I am most grateful to Dr. Oakley for his help and comments and to Dr. R. P. S. Jefferies, also of the British Museum (Natural History), for identifying the stone.

page 245 note 2 I am most grateful to Miss Jennie Coy for identifying the animal bones. Full details are deposited with the finds in the Winchester City Museum.

page 246 note 1 Best accounts by T. W. Wake Smart in C. Warne, Ancient Dorset (1872), Appendix, p. 298 (and pl. facing p. 297) and p. 231; he also contributed to Hutchins, J., History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd’ed., i (1861), p. 562Google Scholar, and to Purbeck Papers, i (1859–60), 228Google Scholar9, pl. xxiii. I am grateful to Mr. R. A. H. Farrar for these references.

page 246 note 2 Lethbridge, T. C., ‘Burial of an Iron Age Warrior at Snailwell’, Proc. Camb. A.S. xlvii (1954), 2537Google Scholar.

page 246 note 3 For the most recent discussion with full references to earlier accounts see Birchall, Ann, ‘The Aylesford-Swarling Culture: The Problem of the Belgae reconsidered’, P.P.S. xxxi (1965), 241367Google Scholar.

page 246 note 4 Laver, P. G., ‘The excavations of a Tumulus at Lexden, Colchester’, Archaeologia, lxxvi (1926), 252Google Scholar.

page 246 note 5 Lethbridge, op. cit.

page 248 note 1 Smith, R. A., ‘On Late-Celtic Antiquities discovered at Welwyn, Herts.’, Archaeologia, lxiii (1912), 1012Google Scholar, does not mention this, but see F.C.H. Beds, ii (1908), p. 14Google Scholar.

page 248 note 2 I am grateful to Mr. John Collis for this observation, based on evidence from Owlesbury Grave 10.

page 248 note 3 Information from Mr. A. G. Down: one stylus in a grave of A.D. 70–80, another in a grave of late first to early second century. For a fine bronze stylus in a grave of A.D. 130–60 at Baldock, Herts., see Arch. Journ. lxxxviii (1931), 273Google Scholar.

page 248 note 4 I am grateful to Dr. I. M. Stead for allowing me to see proofs of his important paper ‘A La Tène III Burial at Welwyn Garden City’, Archaeologia, ci (1967), 162Google Scholar, in time to correct Table I where it was based on earlier accounts which his own work has now superseded.

page 248 note 5 I am most grateful to Mr. R. A. H. Farrar, F.S.A., for kindly providing me with full details of the shale plaques found in Dorset.

page 249 note 1 The existence of a bevel on the underside of some of these objects has been used (London in Roman Times (1930), p. 109) to support their interpretation as trays, since it would make them easier to pick up. As Table II shows, bevels are almost as frequent on the upper edges and cannot therefore be used to support this argument.

page 249 note 2 These cuts, which are relatively few in number, must not be confused with the mass of scorings found on the underside of almost all these objects. These latter scorings appear to result from the rough trimming of the underside of the shale, which has not been brought to the same smooth surface as the upper side.

page 249 note 3 Calkin, J. B., ‘Kimmeridge Coal-Money’, Proc. D.N.H.A.S. 75 (1955), 47Google Scholar.

page 250 note 1 Purbeck Papers, i (1859–60), 225, pl. xxvGoogle Scholar; Dorset County Museum 1884. 9. 153.

page 250 note 2 Proc. D.N.H.A.S. 12 (1891), 3031Google Scholar.

page 250 note 3 From the Verne Citadel, Portland, and now in Portland Museum, Wakeham Street, Easton, Portland.

page 250 note 4 Reading Museum.